Institute for Advanced Study at CEU
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Promoting the free and independent pursuit of scholarly research in the context of an interdisciplinary intellectual community https://ias.ceu.edu/
Our 2025/26 IAS CEU Fellows brought a wide range of research projects and perspectives to our intellectual community. 🎥 In this video, John C. Swanson, Senior Core Fellow in 2025/26, talks about his book project and the questions that drive his research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_SW...
The Human Stories Hidden in the Auschwitz Album | John C Swanson | IAS CEU
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Hear from our 2025/26 fellows about their research, their experience, and what they gained from being part of our community. 🎥 Watch @briankgoodman.bsky.social talk about Democracy, Dissent & Human Rights tinyurl.com/ycybrhfu 📣 Applications for 2027/28 are now open: tinyurl.com/3uycr8yb
How Literature Shapes Resistance: Brian K. Goodman on Democracy, Dissent & Human Rights | IAS CEU
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Applications are now open for the IAS CEU Global Invisible University Fellowship Program for AY 2027/28! We welcome Junior/Senior Core Fellows, Artists in Residence, Affiliated Fellows, and Threatened Scholars. For more details and how to apply, please visit our website: ias.ceu.edu/fellowships-...
Join us for our next Fellows’ Seminar with Joseph Tanke, exploring anxiety not as individual pathology, but as a socially mediated condition shaped by freedom, embodiment, care, and power. ⏰27 May, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/4nrfxjpu
Nervous System: Neoliberalism and Anxiety
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Join us tomorrow for the symposium “Staying with the Trouble. Art, Race, and Coloniality in Interwar Eastern Europe.” This event explores the interwar period as a critical moment when Eastern European states navigated their precarious status as (semi)peripheries. events.ceu.edu/2026-05-14/s...
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Join us for our next Fellows’ Seminar with Costică Brădăţan, who explores why dissent is essential to democracy, and how going against the crowd preserves freedom, diversity of thought, and intellectual vitality. ⏰13 May, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/yx576aar
The Herd in Our Head. A Study in Dissent
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Balázs Trencsényi, Director of @iasceu.bsky.social, offers a timely and thought-provoking analysis of the fall of the Orbán regime, the dynamics of democratic change in Hungary, and the vital role of societal resilience in moments of political transformation. lareviewofbooks.org/article/hung...
Reclaiming the Small Circles of Liberty | Los Angeles Review of Books
How Hungary rid itself of Viktor Orbán.
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Join us today for a lecture by Conny Roggeband & Andrea Krizsan. They discuss how autocratising regimes strategically attack gender equality, dismantle feminist institutions, restrict civic space, and use gendered political violence as a tool of power. ⏰6 May, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/y58m2sb8
Backlash and Beyond: How Autocratising Regimes Weaponise Gender
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What drives democratic breakthroughs in post-Soviet Eurasia? Join Oleksandr Fisun for a talk on informal institutions, oligarchic power-sharing, and the paradox of “Machiavellian moments” shaping competitive politics across the region. ⏰29 April 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/4tcawym5
Informal Institutions, Republicanism, and the Origins of Competitive Politics: The Puzzle of ‘Machiavellian Moments’ in Post-Soviet Eurasia
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Join us for the next IAS CEU seminar, where Rajshree Chandra will explore the aesthetics of democratic authoritarianism in India, examining how postcolonial histories, religion, and caste shape contemporary political expression. ⏰22 April 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/56y2zmzh
An Aesthetics Approach to Understanding Populism: Notes from India
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Join us today for New Breath: Iranian Underground Short Films — a powerful selection of bold, independent voices from a new generation of Iranian filmmakers. Register here: forms.office.com/e/NL0DFv2YdY
Join Lucia Szemetova for a talk on the complex journeys of footage from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Her presentation explores hidden histories of audiovisual materials and raises questions about archives and cultural memory in a transnational context. ⏰25 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/4swbnn9m
From Smuggling to Streaming: The (Archival) Afterlives of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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For our next IAS CEU seminar, join Péter Krekó for a lecture on how modern “spin dictatorships” manage information and shape discourse in polarized media environments. Why is there a demand for deceit, and why do citizens embrace misleading narratives? ⏰18 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/22bex2yr
Brainwashing of the People, by the People, with the People. Informational autocracies and state-sponsored disinformation in the XXI Century
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Join us for a talk by Dariia Kuzmych sharing fieldwork from workshops with Ukrainian defenders in post-combat hospital settings. The project explores recovery through collective artistic processes: sketches, collages, and reflection as part of healing. ⏰11 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/mtpxwcn2
Holding the Space: Embodied Artistic Research in Ukrainian Post-Combat Hospital Settings
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How did writers and artists working under authoritarianism respond to a widespread sense of political failure in the decades after 1968? Join us for a lecture by Brian K. Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social on "the antipolitical imagination". ⏰4 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/2rkvcr4m
The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York
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We’re delighted to welcome three new fellows joining IAS CEU this March: Rajshree Chandra, Michael Robinson, and Benedek Totth.
Join us for a lecture by John C. Swanson exploring his new book project, a powerful triple biography of Lili Jacob, her home village of Bilky (now in Ukraine), and the Auschwitz Album, illuminating lives and histories too often left unseen. ⏰February 25, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/dewrz3pa
A Triple Biography: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album
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Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marc Loustau as he explores the responses of Hungary’s far-right recruiters among the Hungarian minority in Serbia's Vojvodina region. Don’t miss the opportunity to dive into the dynamics of far-right politics across borders! ⏰February 18, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/mr3zw6nx
Varieties of Political Opinion about Hungary-Based Extremist Movements in Vojvodina, Serbia
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Joseph Tanke, IAS CEU Affiliated Fellow, will be giving a talk today at CEU Vienna. Don't miss his insightful discussion on "Three Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically."
CEU Philosophy Department@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 Colloquium TODAY at CEU! Three Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically with Joseph Tanke (University of Hawaii) Find out more at our events page: events.ceu.edu/2026-02-17/t... #philsky #AI #Philosophy #philevent #Marx #Foucault #Negri #Simondon
Don’t forget to join us for Ümit Kurt’s talk on the micro-history of three perpetrators of the Armenian genocide in Aintab (Gaziantep). Through social network analysis, the lecture explores motives, networks, and responsibility at the local level. ⏰ February 11, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/ycxavw5n
Biographies of Mass Violence in the Ottoman Borderlands in Context: The Perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide
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Next month, I'm giving a lecture on "The Antipolitical Imagination" at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (@iasceu.bsky.social). If you're in Budapest, join us! events.ceu.edu/2026-03-04/a...
The Antipolitical Imagination: The Story of a Dissident Idea between Budapest and New York
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Join us for a talk by Michał Pospiszyl, in which he explores “escape ecologies” in 18th–early 19th c. Eastern Europe, when climate change (the Little Ice Age), war, epidemics, and economic disruption reshaped Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. ⏰ 3 February, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/3r5dfbbw
At the Edge of Power: Peasants and Escape Ecologies in Eastern Europe, c. 1700–1850
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A warm welcome to our new fellows joining us in February: Dariia Kuzmych, Conny Roggeband, and Péter Krekó. 🎉#iasceu #CEU
Join us for Csaba Jelinek’s lecture on the role of the construction sector in the global housing crisis. Using Hungary as a case study, this talk explores skyrocketing construction costs, housing politics, and their links to autocratic power. ⏰ 21 January, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/4ktp3em3
A missing piece from the puzzle: Conceptualizing the role of the construction sector in the housing crisis
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🔜 Don’t forget to join us for Dorota Jagoda Michalska’s lecture on Polish artist Władysław Hasior and for a discussion of class within the allegedly ‘classless’ society of the Polish People’s Republic after 1956. ⏰ 3 December, 12:30 pm CET 📍 Budapest,Nador u. 13, Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/234szupn #IASCEU
Assembling the ‘Chłopo-Robotnik’: Władysław Hasior (1928-1999) and the Materiality of the Semiperiphery
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🎬 Rear Shadow – Lecture with Kaveh Mazaheri ⏰November 26, 2025, 12:30–2:00 PM Join us for a talk by Kaveh Mazaheri (Artist Protection Fund, Fellow at @iasceu.bsky.social ), who will present his work-in-progress on Rear Shadow. a hybrid screenplay/film project. 👉 tinyurl.com/46wkf9xu
Rear Shadow
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Making Trouble with Email: The Intimate Legacies of Attachment 🔜 Don’t forget to join us for Cait McKinney’s lecture that approaches email attachment as loaded with queer potential. ⏰ Nov 19, 12:30 pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13 Details: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-19/m...
Making Trouble with Email: The Intimate Legacies of Attachment
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Garbage is both materially present and conceptually elusive. In this talk, Anne Berg examines waste that resists classification and explores how waste management conceals and sustains power structures. 🗓️ November 12, 2025 ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13/118 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/3z4pv9d7 #IASCEU
Garbage Trouble in Paradise
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I am a fellow at Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Study. The IAS coordinated my media appearances about the Trump-Putin Budapest summit. Now they’ve put the coverage my comments received on one site: ias.ceu.edu/article/2025... It’s a pleasure to be at @iasceu.bsky.social!
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